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A Podcast by Jim & Pat Byrne about everything related to Glasgow West End. Interviews, what's on, reviews, guests and anything else you can think of.
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Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
Tuesday Jun 19, 2018
What's Pat been up to: Glasgow School of Art fire, World Cup, new blogger Lola Rose, West End Festival and more
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode 23
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Music by Jim Byrne
Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Friday Jun 15, 2018
Friday Jun 15, 2018
Glaswegian writer Claire MacLeary talks to Pat about her development as a writer and her latest book, 'Burnout'
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Podcast: Episode 22
Claire MacLeary is a Glaswegian writer. She writes short stories and crime novels. Her first book 'Cross Purpose', published by Contraband in 2017, was long list for the McIlvanney Prize for Scottish Crime Book of the Year.
Her second book 'Burnout' is a follow up features the same memorable characters. Whilst firmly entrenched in ‘Tartan Noir’, including appearing at ‘Bloody Scotland’, Claire’s writing has ‘a strong sense of the domestic'.
Pat met Claire in the iconic Ubiquitous Chip for a chat.
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Music by Jim Byrne
Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Tuesday Jun 12, 2018
Tuesday Jun 12, 2018
What's Pat been up to: West End Festival chat, GSA Fashion & Textiles, Open Gardens, Janet Paisley and more
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat: Episode 21
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Music by Jim Byrne
Thursday Jun 07, 2018
Thursday Jun 07, 2018
Professor Gerard Carruthers: from working class roots in Clydebank to the Francis Hutcheson Chair of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University.
Professor Gerard Carruthers is considered one of the leading scholars on the works of Robert Burns. His work ranges widely across Scottish literature, including - among others - Walter Scott, Muriel Spark and Thomas Muir.
Jim spoke to him about his journey from his early days in Clydebank with some significant milestones along the way. It's a fascinating and entertaining journey. Podcast not to be missed.
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Pat's Guide To Glasgow West End
Music by Jim Byrne
Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
Tuesday Jun 05, 2018
What's Pat been up to: West End Festival chat, one woman shows, singers, children's book events, garden parties and more.
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat Episode 19
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Incidental music by Jim Byrne
Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Friday Jun 01, 2018
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat - Episode Eighteen
David Belcher speaks to Pat about his Herald Diary days, writing about the arts, writing plays and his love of soul music.
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Music by Jim Byrne
Contact jim@glasgowwestend.co.uk, pat@glasgowwestend.co.uk @glasgowswestend
Tuesday May 29, 2018
Tuesday May 29, 2018
What's Pat been up to: sore gums, huge cocktails, Lids Open Day, University of Glasgow Creative Writing Fair and a trip to Arrochar
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat Episode 17
Pat visits the dentist, gets half-cut drinking cocktails, misses a gig but still manages to read her story at the University of Glasgow Creative Writing Fair, takes a trip to Lids Open Day and has a great a day out to Arrochar.
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Music by Jim Byrne
Thursday May 24, 2018
Thursday May 24, 2018
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat: Writer Mary Irvine - speaks to Pat about writing, writers and writing of her new novel
Pat talks to Mary Irvine, Writer and Philhellene. Mary blogs on Pat's website about her many writing endeavours and her life in Greece. She is always up to something new and has made a major contribution to the local literary scene in West Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh. They chatted about her successful Meet the Author events at Fruin Farm, the new Open Mic Night for Writers in Balloch, her recently completed novel and a free pamphlet Memories of Spetses.
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Background music by Jim Byrne
Get in touch non Twitter: @glasgowswestend
Monday May 21, 2018
Monday May 21, 2018
Jim & Pat’s Glasgow West End Chat episode 15: The world's first Blogger, The West End Festival and getting zonked out after a spot of Bowen Therapy
In this episode of 'What's Pat Been Up To?' Pat looks forward to The West End Festival, the South Side Film Festival and marvels at the quality of our future Podcast guests.
Send your questions to Pat on Twitter: @glasgowswestend. We'll answer the most interesting questions on the Podcast.
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Background music by Jim Byrne
Thursday May 17, 2018
Thursday May 17, 2018
Jim & Pat's Glasgow West End Chat, Episode 14: Michael Dale, Director of Glasgow West End Festival: From Egypt to Glasgow via London's Old Vic
In this episode Jim chats with Michael Dale, the Director of the West End Festival. Michael tells us about his early adventures booking Pink Floyd and Fairport Cenvention for St Andrew's University Film & Music Festival - a formative experience, which prepared him to later run the word's largest Arts Festival, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Along the way Michael has met a Woolworth's mixture sized bag of the famous and the good – including Cliff Richard, Tom Paxton, Margo MacDonald and many many more.
For the last 24 years Michael has been running the Glasgow West End Festival while putting on numerous other festivals along the way includng The River Festival and previously the Glasgow Garden Festival and the European Special Olympics.
Sit back and listen as Michael tells us about his fascinating journey. Anything I write in this intro couldn't tell you the half of it.
This years West End Festival starts on Thursday 31st of May and continues thru Sat 30th June 2018.
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Music by Jim Byrne
Photo @ Jim Byrne